10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on Terror

10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on TerrorAs the turmoil in the Middle East roils and President Obama’s foreign policy scheme faces severe pressure, a recent survey of likely voters finds that pessimism about our success in the War on Terror “continues to grow” with 45 percent saying they think the U.S. is winning that war, a 17-point drop from its one-time high of 62 percent in February 2009.

Rasmussen found that 45 percent think the U.S. is winning the war, 21 percent think the terrorists are winning, and 26 percent think that the neither side has an advantage.

The number of those who think the U.S. is winning has been steadily dropping since May of 2011.

Another Rasumssen poll finds that only 18 percent feel that U.S. relations with the Muslim world are better now than four years ago.

President Obama’s first major foreign policy effort was to smooth relations between America and Muslims and his speech in Cairo, Egypt in 2009 was hailed in the western press as a great leap forward in American/Muslim relations. But four years later, the American public has come to feel that Obama’s initiative has failed.

A full 45 percent feel that relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world are worse now than four years ago. 13 percent feel there has been no real change since 2009.

Warner Todd Huston

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